Product Description

This classic introduction to algebra is suitable for students meeting the subject for the first time or needing to brush up on it before a course or exam. It will allow you to learn the principles and foundations of the subject and provides the knowledge of algebra required for applications of mathematics to subjects such as engineering.

- Find out what algebra is and explore its various components such as equations, fractions and indices.

- Discover how to solve equations of all kinds - linear, simultaneous and quadratic.

- Examine simple sequences and progressions.

Teach Yourself Algebra is graded and progressive and only a basic knowledge of algebra is assumed. There are plenty of examples and exercises in every chapter and full answers are provided.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153647 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Higher Education Journal
Probably the best value for money on the market.

Review
Probably the best value for money on the market. (Higher Education Journal )

About the Author
Paul Abbott is a maths teacher and author. Hugh Neill lectures in a range of mathematical subjects. Both have written numerous books on a variety of maths topics.

Customer Reviews

Thorough but digestible
I bought this book to polish up my rusty algebra - it's been a few years since A level - and as a refresher course it worked very well. It starts from the absolute basics, so it would probably also be suitable for someone who's never studied algebra before, although a little mathematical knowledge is assumed.

The authors manage to include a lot of useful tips and observations in the text while maintaining a readable style, not over-formatted or cute like a "For Dummies" book. There are plenty of worked examples and exercises with answers. The book only misses out on 5 stars because of a few minor printing errors, which could be important in a book of this kind.

An appetizer for first-year economics undergraduates
Teach Yourself Algebra is an excellent appetizer for those first-year economics undergraduates who are not very confident about their mathematical skills. It was strongly recommended by a lecturer of Quantitative Methods before I started my course in Manchester. It's compact and can usually be digested in a month without much pain. It's full of Qs & As, so after the reading, you're probably ready to apply algebra to economics theories, as I was. Thanks for this book, I now like maths. Cheap & lots to learn: It's such a good investment I've ever made!

Yawn...another feeble maths textbook
In all maths exams you're required to show your working-out, how you arrived at your answer. Not, however, if you're the author of a maths textbook, apparently. The authors assume that the one or at most two examples are so sparklingly clear that you don't need any more, and the exercises only give you the answers. If you don't understand how they were arrived at, tough! This would be OK in other circumstances, but only a few pages in the author lapses rapidly into sloppily assuming knowledge that I for one didn't have. It's not that terrible, but in a teach-yourself book, it's fairly unforgivable. I'm moving on to Stroud's Engineering Mathematics, which seems to assume nothing. See me, must do better...